Posted on 02/09/2009 12:36:11 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny
Frugal Treats page:
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=265519
Popcorn:
My husband makes us some every Saturday night, when we sit down and watch a movie together!
He doesn’t butter it, though ... he pops it in olive oil, and surprisingly enough, it tastes “buttery” even without adding butter!
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world ... wandering awed on a splintered wreck ... whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions ... (A. Dillard)
>>>Years ago there were two sawmills run by dams within 500 feet of each other -one on either side of Route 1.<<<
Most of our dammed mill ponds were used for grinding grain. I only remember one that was a sawmill. The sawmill that I could never get enough of was run by a Mennonite who had a Fairbanks Morse Diesel engine - He could saw from sunup to sundown on 5 gallons of fuel. It was what they call a hit-or-miss type and had an 8’ flywheel. It too ran on a belt that drove it. Once or twice a day they would put some pitch on it to dress the belt and keep it from slipping. It was really fascinating to see it blow perfect smoke rings each time it fired...
I used to love listening to him talk about his earlier years when he worked sawing timber in Oregon. I remember him telling me about one stump that they cut flat and it was so big they held square dances on it.
>>>you have as many TREASURES hanging around as hubby has.<<<
Probably... LOL Last year when scrap prices were so high, I had a hard time convincing my wife that they were all too valuable to sell for scrap...
Is it practical to have a 10’ Allis Chalmers ‘F’ model Self Propelled Gleaner combine for just over one acre of wheat? Nope... but I still keep it.
My wife regularly calls me a pack rat.
[He He He....I told you so...granny]
Photos of Michelle Obama Launching First White House Vegetable Garden Since World
War II
Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows
to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on a produce and herb garden on the
White House grounds.
Spinach, broccoli, lettuces, kale and collard greens will be
among the crops to be planted in the coming week. The first harvest is expected
by late April.
A beehive also is part of the project. Assistant chef Sam Kass says
some produce will be cooked in the White House kitchen and some will be given to
a local soup kitchen where Obama recently helped serve lunch.
Obama told the students
that her family has talked about planting such a garden since they moved to the
White House.
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See photos here:
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City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
Common bar food around here. Heard it was “invented” in the South.<<<
Laughter, as I imagine a couple of____ with too many beers, sitting there dreaming up tall tales of the most impossible thing that they ever ate and fried dill pickles won....
It is as I see it too... :^)<<<
LOL, it is easy to see it for me, as that is about what we looked like, leaving Oregon on the move to Arizona.
The only truck we found that we could afford, was a small dump truck, which got us to within one block of my brothers house and a 100 miles from where we were headed......
We had a 16’ long luggage trailer on and it was piled like the car roof, and behind us, was his brother and his trailer of his stuff, which after 2 weeks in the El Centro desert, he went back to Oregon....It looks about the same as Yucca at Coyote Wells, California...
Gotta be proud of her - she was upset that she had to dip into her ‘cash reserve’ a bit last year and decided that she wanted to put that back, then she decided to double it to two years. I somehow don’t think she will stop there...<<<
Good for her, a good waitress is hard to find and it is the one job that will always feed you.
All the Sheldon’s waitresses were there for years, it was a family restaurant, with good food.
When I applied for a job there, I was wanting to quit the one I had, in a good food Italian Restaurant, the owner chef did not speak english, so we ordered by numbers......
Except that someone had taught him a few words of english and they were “You no gotta man, I no gotta woman, we go to the motel”, LOL and he never gave up.
When I applied at Sheldons they told me to talk to Jeanie, so I did, she wanted to know why I was changing jobs, so I told her and that if I would have the same problem here, tell me now, for I don’t want the job.
Jeanie said “ I am married to the owner here, if you have any problems with him, you come to me and I will handle him...”
I never had a problem, nor did any of the other waitresses.
“Food and Freedom”
1918 War Cook Book
http://www.archive.org/stream/foodfreedomhouse00purdrich/foodfreedomhouse00purdrich_djvu.txt
Canning suggestions, will not be considered safe today.
There are lots of fruit recipes.
>>>Jeanie said “ I am married to the owner here, if you have any problems with him, you come to me and I will handle him...”<<<
Yep, I remember when that would have meant something...
Now days, you are liable to get ‘You mean you aren’t up for a threesome?’
That’s one of those ‘Changes’ I can’t believe in...
No matter what Øbama says...
http://theoldfoodie.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html
A Recipe for Mum.
Today, June 28th
Samuel Pepys enjoyed a trendy seventeenth century drink on this day in 1664:
“…thence with my uncle Wight to the Mum house; and there drinking, he doth complain of his wife most cruelly, as the most troublesome woman in the world…”
The specialty at the Mum house was – Mum. Mum was a type of beer originally made in Braunschweig (Brunswick) in Germany. At first it was made entirely from wheat malt, although at later times barley malt was also used. It was strong, flavoured with hops and various herbs, and aged for a couple of years before being unleashed on the public. Mum was popular in Pepys’ time, partly on account of its supposed medicinal benefits (an old beer-drinkers excuse). It was supposedly “wholsom for Melancholy Flegmatic People, and for those whose Food is coarse Bread and Cheese, Flower’d [i.e floured] Milk, Herbs and lean Potages, …” as well as being “very great in the Gravel, and against inward Bruises”.
Naturally, whatever the Germans could do, the English tried to do better, and recipes for Mum soon started appearing in English cookbooks. There were often comments about its not particularly pleasant flavour (probably necessary in order to claim medicinal benefit?) – perhaps on account of the birch and fir tops. Maybe that is why old cookbooks also had recipes for bottled sauces using old Mum as an ingredient?
To make Mum.
Take thirty-two gallons of Water, boil it till a third part is waster, brew it according to Art, with three Bushels and a half of Malt, half a Bushel of ground Beans, and half a Bushel of Oat-meal; when you put it into your Cask, do not fill it too full, and when it begins to work, put in a Pound and a half of the inner Rind of Fir, half a Pound of the tops of Fir and Birch, (instead of the inward Rind and tops of Fir, our English Mum-makers use Cardamums, Sassafras and Ginger, the Rind of Walnut-tree, Elecampane-root, and red Sanders; others add Alexander Water-cresses, Brook-lime, and Horse-radish Root rasp’d) Avens, Beton, Burnet, Marjoram, Mother of Thyme, Penny-royal, of each a small Handful, Elder-flowers a Handful, of Rosa Solis a handful, of Carduus Benedictus a handful and a half, of Barberries bruis’d half an Ounce, of Cardamums bruis’d an Ounce and a half; these Ingredients are to be put in when the Liquor has wrought a while, and after they are let it, let it work over the Vessel as little as may be; when it has done working, fill up the Cask, and put into it five new laid Eggs, not broken nor crack’d, stop it close, and it will be fit to drink in two Years.
[Cook and Confectioners Dictionary; John Nott 1724]
To make Mum Catchup.
To a quart of old mum put four ounces of anchovies, of mace and nutmegs sliced one ounce, of cloves and black pepper half an ounce. Boil it till it is reduced one third. When cold, bottle for use.
[The Experienced English Housekeeper; Elizabeth Raffald, 1769]
Tomorrow’s Story …
An Antipodean Dinner.
Quotation for the Day …
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. Dave Barry.
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Labels: 18thC recipe, beer, beverage, English recipe
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Recipes from Scutari.
Today, June 26th …
Alexis Soyer was a famous French-born chef in Victorian England who cooked for aristocrats and gentlemens clubs, and achieved celebrity status in his own time. He was also famous for his philanthropic works in Ireland during the potato famine, and in the Crimea during the war of 1854-6.
Soyer volunteered to go to the Crimea at his own expense, to assist in the task of provisioning the troops at the front line. He worked alongside Florence Nightingale, with whom he had corresponded, in the hospital at Scutari, helping her to improve the feeding and hence the health, of the injured soldiers there. While he was in the Crimea, Soyer kept up a steady stream of letters to the editors of The Times, and these were published regularly, along with many of his recipes.
Here is an extract for his letter published on this day in 1855.
To the Editor of the Times,
Sir,- I herewith beg to forward you some of the most important receipts which I have concocted out of the soldiers’ rations, and which are now adopted in various parts of the camp, and will no doubt shortly be extended to every regiment in the Crimea, having had them printed for circulation throughout the army. Some of the receipts were printed at head-quarters and issued for distribution. The reason for my return to Scutari for a short time is to place a civilian cook who understands his business in each hospital, which cannot fail to be beneficial to the patients, and by a due organisation in those departments economy will in the end be effected.
I brought with me from head-quarters 12 complete rations as given daily to the troops, and with these provisions I am now teaching ten of those very willing fellows who were originally engaged as cooks in the hospitals the plain way of camp cookery, and, instead of being almost useless, as they were, in so important a branch, they will now turn out, if not the bravest in the army, at least the most wonderful, being able to face both fire and battery when requisite.
With the highest consideration, I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
A. SOYER
Barrack Hospital, Scutari,
(Receipt No. 1) Stewed Salt Beef And Pork A La Omar Pasha
Put into a canteen saucepan about 2lb of well soaked beef, cut in eight pieces; ½lb of salt pork, divided in two, and also soaked; ½lb of rice, or six tablespoonsful; ½lb of onions, or four middle-sized ones, peeled and sliced; 2oz of brown sugar, or one large tablespoonful; ¼oz of pepper, and five pints of water; simmer gently for three hours, remove the fat from the top and serve. The first time I made the above was in Sir John Campbell’s soup kitchen, situated on the top of his rocky cavern, facing Sebastopol, near Cathcart’s-hill, and among the distinguished pupils I had upon the occasion were Colonel Wyndham, Sir John Campbell, and Dr Hall, Inspector-General of the Army in the Crimea, and other officers. This dish was much approved at dinner, and is enough for six people, and if the receipt be closely followed you cannot fail to have an excellent food. The London salt meat will only require a four hours soaking, having been only lightly pickled.
(Receipt No. 7) Cossacks’ Plum Pudding
Put into a basin 1lb of flour, ¾lb of raisins (stoned, if time be allowed), ¾lb of the fat of salt pork (well washed, cut into small dies, or chopped), two tablespoonsful of sugar or treacle; add a half pint of water; mix all together; put into a cloth tied tightly; boil for four hours, and serve. If time will not admit, boil only two hours, though four are preferable. How to spoil the above:- Add anything to it.
Tomorrow’s Story …
A pot of the best tea.
Quotation for the Day …
An old-fashioned vegetable soup, without any enhancement, is a more powerful anti carcinogen than any known medicine. James Duke M.D.(U.S.D.A.)
Prayers up. Keep us informed.
http://www.archive.org/stream/100thingsyoushou1949unit/100thingsyoushou1949unit_djvu.txt
a. S. SUPERIKTENOENT OF DOCUMtNU
OCT IG 1949
Committee on Un-Am^erican Activities
U. S. House of Representatives
*
John S. Wood, Georgia, Chairman
Francis E. Walter, Pennsylvania
Burr P. Harrison, Virginia
John McSweeney, Ohio
Morgan M. Moulder, Missouri
J. Parnell Thomas, Neiv Jersey
Richard M. Nixon, California
Francis Case, South Dakota
Harold H. Velde, Illinois
Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., Counsel
Louis J. Russell, Senior Investigator
John W. Carrington, Clerk of Committee
Benjamin Mandel, Director of Research
100 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
COMMUNISM
IN THE U. S. A.
The first of a series on the Communist conspiracy and its
influence in this country as a whole, on religion, on
education, on labor and on our government
^^No Communist, no matter how many
votes he should secure in a national
election, could, even if he would, become
President of the present government.
When a Communist heads the govern-
ment of the United States — and that day
will come just as surely as the sun rises—
the government will not he a capitalist
government hut a Soviet government, and
hehind this government will stand the
Red army to enforce the dictatorship of
the proletariat, ‘’
Sworn statement of
WILLIAM Z. FOSTER
Head of the Communist Party
in the United States
100 Things You Should Know
About Communism in the U. S. A.
Forty years ago, Communism was just a plot in the minds of a very
few peculiar people.
Today, Communism is a world force governing millions of the
human race and threatening to govern all of it.
Who are the Communists? Hoiv do they work? What do
they want? What would they do to you?
For the past lo years your committee has studied these and other
questions and now some positive answers can be made.
Some answers will shock the citizen who has not examined Com-
munism closely. Most answers will infuriate the Communists.
These answers are given in five booklets, as follows:
1. One Hundred Things You Should Know About Commu-
nism in the U. S. A.
2. One Hundred Things You Should Know About Commu-
nism and Religion.
3. One Hundred Things You Should Know About Commu-
nism and Education.
4. One Hundred Things You Should Know About Commu-
nism and Labor.
5. One Hundred Things You Should Know About Commu-
nism and Government.
These booklets are intended to help you know a Communist when
you hear him speak and when you see him work.
If you ever find yourself in open debate with a Communist the facts
here given can be used to destroy his arguments completely and expose
him as he is for all to see.
continued, full text is here.......
Could it be that Øbama has been taking a page from Herbert Hoover?
The Food Law
>>>Legitimate or illegitimate speculations; the estab-
lishment of state administration boards to co-
operate with the central board; the mobilization
of men and women all over the country to carry
out the directions for food conservation.
The Food Law authorizes a governmental con-
trol over the supply, distribution, and movement
of all food, feeds, and fuel^ and all machinery,
implements, and equipment required for their
actual production. Any agency necessary to
carry out their control may be created; any
existing department of the government may be
used. * All destruction of food and fuel for the
purpose of enhancing prices is prohibited; all
willful waste, all hoarding, all monopolization,
all discrimination and unfair practices, all un-
just charges in handling and dealing in food and
fuel, and all combining to restrict production
supply, or distribution are made unlawful.<<<
Full text of “Toward soviet America”
Reviewer: crashmcbean - [5.0 out of 5 stars] - March 8, 2009
Subject: Brilliant
Certainly the most definitive socialist intellectual writing to emerge from the American communist movement since Daniel De Leon’s seminal pieces. William Z. Foster was perhaps the most influential of all the great American communists of the 20th century, but his thoughts differ greatly from those of De Leon in that Foster rejects anarcho-syndicalism in full. “Toward Soviet America” may be dated in places now, of course, but the underlying message is as true now as ever.
Mandatory reading for all interested in the American radical movement or history of the CPUSA.
Read full text on line:
http://www.archive.org/stream/towardsovietamer00fostrich/towardsovietamer00fostrich_djvu.txt
Oh yeah, I remember seeing that by the Duke CEO some time ago now. You have an excellent memory, Eagle!!
http://www.archive.org/stream/antssomeotherins00fore/antssomeotherins00fore_djvu.txt
Full text of “Ants and some other insects; an inquiry into the psychic powers of these animals”
An Inquiry into
The Psychic Powers of these Animals
With an Appendix on
The Peculiarities of Their Olfactory Sense
By
Dr. August For el
Late Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich
Translated from the German
By
Prof. William Morton Wheeler
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Chicago
The Open Court Publishing Company
London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner &* Co. Ltd.
COPYRIGHT, 1904
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO.
CHICAGO
/Of
ANTS AND SOME OTHER INSECTS.
WHEN discussing the ant-mind, we must consider that these
small animals, on the one hand, differ very widely from our-
selves in organisation, but on the other hand, have come, through
so-called convergence, to possess in the form of a social common-
wealth a peculiar relationship to us. My subject, however, requires
the discussion of so many complicated questions that I am com-
pelled to assume acquaintance with the work of others, especially
the elements of psychology, and in addition the works of P. Huber,
Wasmann, von Buttel-Reepen, Darwin, Romanes, Lubbock, my
Fourmis de la Sutsse, and many others. Since the functions ot the
sense-organs constitute the basis of comparative psychology, I
must also refer to a series of articles entitled “Sensations des In-
sectes” which I have recently published (1900-1901) in the Rivista
de Biologia Generate, edited by Dr. P. Celesia. In these papers I
have defined my position with respect to various authors, especially
Plateau and Bethe.
Very recently Bethe, Uexkull, and others have denied the ex-
istence of psychic powers in invertebrate animals. They explain
the latter as reflex-machines, and take their stand on the ground of
the so-called psycho-physical parallelism for the purpose of demon-
strating our inability to recognise mental qualities in these animals.
They believe, however, that they can prove the mechanical regu-
larity of behavior, but assume unknown forces whenever they are
left in the lurch in their explanations. They regard the mind as
first making its appearance in the vertebrates, whereas the old Car-
tesians regarded all animals, in contradistinction to man, as mind-
less (unconscious) machines.
2 ANTS AND SOME OTHER INSECTS.
Continued, with full text on page.
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Secret Armies
SECRET ARMIES
The New Technique of Nazi War/ore
JOHN L SPIVAK
MODERN AGE BOOKS, INC.
432 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT 1939 BY JOHN L. SPIVAK
PUBLISHED BY MODERN AGE BOOKS, INC.
432 Fourth Avenue
New York City
All rights in this book are reserved, and it may
not be reproduced in whole or in part without
written permission from the holder of these
rights. For information address the publishers.
First Printing, February 1939
Second Printing, March 1939
60
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PACE
Preface 7
I Czechoslovakia Before the Carving 9
II England s Cliveden Set 17
III France s Secret Fascist Army 31
IV Dynamite Under Mexico 43
V Surrounding the Panama Canal 56
VI Secret Agents Arrive in America 73
VII Nazi Spies and American “Patriots” 84
VIII Henry Ford and Secret Nazi Activities 102
IX Nazi Agents in American Universities 118
X Underground Armies in America 130
XI The Dies Committee Suppresses Evidence 137
XII Conclusion 155
ILLUSTRATIONS
PACE
Application in the Secret Order of 76 by Sidney Brooks 77
Letter from Harry A. Jung 82
Anti-Semitic handbill 85
Letter from Peter V. Armstrong 89
Letter to Peter V. Armstrong 90
Account card of Reverend Gerald B. Winrod 104
Sample of “Capitol News & Feature Service” 106
Letter from Wessington Springs Independent 107
Letter from General Rodriguez Ill
Letter from General Rodriguez 113
Letter from Henry Allen 115
Anti-Semitic sticker and German titlepage of book by Henry
Ford 117
Letter from Olov E. Tietzow 125
Judgment showing conviction of E. F. Sullivan 138-139
Letter from Carl G. Orgell 151
Letter from G. Moshack 153
Letter from E. A. Vennekohl .. , 154
Preface
THE MATERIAL IN THIS SMALL VOLUME just barely scratches the
surface of a problem which is becoming increasingly grave:
the activities of Nazi agents in the United States, Mexico, and
Central America. During the past five years I have observed some
of them, watching the original, crudely organized and directed
propaganda machine develop, grow and leave an influence far
wider than most people seem to realize. What at first appeared to
be merely a distasteful attempt by Nazi Government officials at
direct interference in the affairs of the American people and
their Government, has now assumed the more sinister aspect of
also seeking American naval and military secrets.
Further studies in Central America, Mexico and the Panama
Canal Zone disclosed an espionage network directed by the
Rome-Berliri-Tokyo axis and operating against the peace and
security of the United States. A scrutiny of the Nazi Fifth
Column* in a few European countries, especially in Czechoslo
vakia just before that Republic was turned over to Germany s
continued, full text on page.
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